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You Can Hijack Nearly Any Drone Mid-flight Using This Tiny Gadget

Now you can hijack nearly any drone mid-flight just by using a tiny gadget.

Security researcher Jonathan Andersson has devised a small hardware, dubbed Icarus, that can hijack a variety of popular drones mid-flight, allowing attackers to lock the owner out and give them complete control over the device.

Andersson, who is the manager of Trend Micro’s TippingPoint DVLab division, demonstrated

Classified U.S. Defense Network Outage Hits Air Force’s Secret Drone Operations

U.S. drones are again in news for killing innocent people.

The Air Force is investigating the connection between the failure of its classified network, dubbed SIPRNet, at Creech Air Force Base and a series of high-profile airstrikes that went terribly wrong in September this year.

Creech Air Force Base is a secret facility outside Las Vegas, where military and Air Force pilots sitting in

NSA’s Top-Secret SKYNET May Be Killing Thousands of Innocent Civilians

NSA’s Top-Secret SKYNET May Be Killing Thousands of Innocent Civilians With Drones
So what do you expect from an Artificially intelligent program run by the government intelligence agency?
Possibly killing innocent people.
The real-life SKYNET, the fictional malevolent artificial intelligence in the Terminator movies, run by the US National Security Agency (NSA) is a surveillance program that uses cell phone metadata to track the GPS location and call activities of suspected terrorists, who may be shot by a Hellfire missile.
Now, a new analysis of previously published NSA documents leaked by former NSA staffer Edward Snowden suggests that many of those people killed based on metadata may have been innocent.
Last year, the leaked documents detailing the NSA’s SKYNET programme published by The Intercept showed that NSA had used a machine learning algorithm on the cellular network metadata of 55 Million people in Pakistan to rate each citizen’s likelihood of being a terrorist.

You need to know that the US drone bombing campaigns in Pakistan have been raging for years.

Elementary Errors in SKYNET

However, the spy agency has made elementary errors in their machine-learning algorithm, which lead to the generation of thousands of false leads, potentially exposing innocent people to remote assassination by drone.
One of the leaked slides claimed that SKYNET has a false-positive rate of 0.008%, in some cases, and the NSA was using about 55 million people’s phone records for SKYNET.
But, Ars Technica points out that, even at this minute rate, many innocent people are possibly mislabeled. Some of the NSA’s tests even saw higher error rates of 0.18%, which means mislabeling nearly 99,000 people out of the 55 Million.

“There are very few ‘known terrorists’ to use to train and test the model,” Patrick Ball, the executive director of Human Rights Data Analysis Group, told the site. “If they are using the same records to train the model as they are using to test the model, their assessment of the fit is completely bullshit.”

The purpose SKYNET serves is not clear yet. Although SKYNET could be part of non-violent surveillance programs, like tracking and monitoring suspected terrorists, Ars suggests this technology could potentially be used to target drone strikes.

US Drone Strike Killed Almost 4,000 People

Since 2004, the United States government has carried out hundreds of drone strikes against alleged terrorists in Pakistan and killed somewhere between 2,500 and 4,000 people, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported.
The NSA has not yet commented on how the agency used SKYNET, and how the technology was trained.
But Does Killing people “Based on Metadata” actually make sense?
Maybe it is easy to say YES, it makes sense as it happened or is happening far away in a foreign land. But imagine if SKYNET gets turned on us.

Dutch Police Training Eagles to Take Down Rogue Drones

You may have seen number of viral entertainment videos on the Internet, titled:

Hawk attacks Drone!

Angry Bird takes down Quadcopter,

and the best one…

Eagle attack: Drone Kidnapped by two Eagles,

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…showing eagles, not-so-natural predators, attacking and bringing down drones when someone with a camera tries to invade their private airspace.

Inspired from this:

How Spy Agencies Hacked into Israeli Military Drones to Collect Live Video Feeds

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In a joint surveillance program, the US intelligence agency NSA (National Security Agency) and the British intelligence agency GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) hacked into, decrypted, and tracked live video feeds of Israeli Military Drones and Fighter Jets.

This could be one of the most shocking and embarrassing